<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true">TRACE is a new multimodal retriever proposed for grounding time-series data in textual context.Dynamic data in areas like weather, healthcare, and energy require effective interpretation and retrieval.TRACE addresses the lack of semantic grounding in time-series retrieval methods.It aligns time-series embeddings with textual context and supports various cross-modal retrieval modes.The retriever facilitates linking linguistic descriptions with complex temporal patterns.TRACE enriches downstream models with context to improve predictive accuracy and interpretability.It also functions as a standalone encoder and achieves state-of-the-art performance on forecasting and classification tasks.The retriever offers dual utility as an encoder for downstream applications and a general-purpose tool to enhance time-series models.TRACE employs hard negative mining for semantically meaningful retrieval.It enables fine-grained channel-level alignment and effectively handles multi-channel signals.The retriever can be task-specifically tuned for context-aware representations.TRACE's performance has been validated through extensive experiments across various domains.The proposal aims to improve time-series retrieval and enhance interpretability in downstream tasks.The method supports both Text-to-Timeseries and Timeseries-to-Text retrieval modes.TRACE bridges the gap in effective interpretation and retrieval of domain-specific time-series data.